254 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [March, 



It was conjectured that fiie was a ftranger ; for if any perfon on board 

 her had had any knowledge of the harbour, fhe might have run with 

 much eafe from the middle-head into fafety in Spring Cove. The 

 officer who went down unfortunately could not board her. 



At night the wind increafed, with much rain, and morning was 

 anxioufly looked for, to tell them where and who the ftranger was. 

 Nothing more, however, was known of her during that day, than 

 that (he was to be feen from the flag-ftaff ; whence in the evening 

 word was brought up, over-land,, that another vefTel, a brig, was 

 in fight 



Anxiety and curiofity, now ftrained to the utmoft, were obliged to 

 wait the pairing of another night ; but about three o'clock on Monday 

 the ioth the wind and weather both changed ; and, to the infinite fa- 

 tisfacTion of the anxious expectants, the fhip William, from London, 

 came to an anchor, and with her the Arthur, a fmall brig of about 

 i)inety-five tons, from Bengal. The William had failed from the 

 river Thames on the firft of July ; whence fhe proceeded to Cork, 

 where (lie took on board a cargo of beef and pork for the colony*; 

 but had not an ounce of flour. By her they learned, that Governor 

 Phillip had reached England in fafety. The natives Bennillong and 

 Yem-mer-ra-wan-nie were well, but not fufficiently diverted of the 

 genuine natural love for liberty and their native country, to prefer 

 London, with its pleafures and its abundance, to the woods of New 

 South Wales. They requefted that their wives might be taught to 

 expect their return in the courfe of that year. Had it been poflible to 

 eradicate in any bread that love for the place of our birth, or where 

 we have lived and grown from infancy to manhood, which is im- 

 planted in us by the kind hand of nature, it furely would have been 

 effected on two natives of New Holland, whofe country did not 

 poffefs a fingle charm in the eye even of a favage inhabitant of New 



* She had likewife on board a machine for dreffing flour ; a fmall quantity of iron ; two pair 

 of mill-ftones, and fome tools for fmiths. 



Zealand ; 



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